attack-surface-triage SKILL.md skillA

attack-surface-triage from annatchijova/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add annatchijova/skills/attack-surface-triage@git:20260815.2390440

Pins git:20260815.2390440 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
annatchijova/skills
Path
attack-surface-triage/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260815.2390440, committed Aug 15, 2026
Size
12,435 bytes
Repository stars
9
License
a license file GitHub does not identify

Enumerate the attack surface of an AUTHORIZED target and rank it into a reproducible, falsifiable candidate queue — reachability × asset value × technique plausibility — before anyone touches a payload. Use whenever the user asks "where should we start", "what's our attack surface", "what should we test first", "map the exposure", "prioritize these findings", "which endpoints matter", or hands over a recon dump, an asset inventory, a subdomain list, an OpenAPI spec, or a pile of scanner output…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Attack Surface Triage

Triage is the step everyone skips. Without it, testing follows whatever was
easiest to find, the report reflects the tester's tooling rather than the
target's risk, and the highest-value path is discovered by the attacker instead
of by you.

The product of this skill is a **queue of candidates**, ordered, each one
carrying the evidence that put it there and the observation that would remove
it. A candidate is a hypothesis about where an attacker would go — Firstness, a
possibility noticed. It is not a finding, and this skill never promotes it to
one.

Composes with the library:

- **attack-surface-triage** (this) — surface inventory → ranked candidate queue
- **red-team-auditing** — takes one candidate and earns or refutes a verdict
- **purple-team-exercise** — takes one technique and measures whether it is seen
- **deterministic-core** — the ranking function must be reproducible, not vibes
- **claim-provenance-discipline** — candidates keep their epistemic level in transit
- **tamper-evident-audit-chain** — the scope and inventory as of a point in time

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## Step 0 — Scope gate
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add annatchijova/skills/attack-surface-triage@sha256:16d6abbf8f90a313

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260815.2390440, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 15, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
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Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12435 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

annatchijova/skills · 9 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n64qjbss74dyhqn6
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=annatchijova/skills/attack-surface-triage
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/16d6abbf8f90a313d8c57d3508d7da582cdd04ef7243a3e49f1c7f0d17398dc8

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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